@AmishRakeFight See, I'd roll my eyes a lot more at someone who's trying to show off a PC's IC hacking skills by pasting port scan command in their poses than someone who just name-drops a bunch of TCP/IP jargon randomly ("I'm using the mac address to do a reverse lookup on the DNS!") while hacking the FBI database using an iPad over the Starbucks wifi. Bring it on!
And believe me, I am peeved sometimes by seeing people roleplay things which are actually impossible to do with computers such as hacking into machines which aren't even networked. Even that's preferable than turning the scene into an self-promotion exercise.
A bit of jargon just to provide a taste of authenticity at the same ratio they use on TV (i.e. not so much) is perfectly fine. Going too far either way irks me.
http://shinytoylabs.com/jargon/
"Use the backup CPU program, then you can transmit the redundant malware!"
@Arkandel said:
A bit of jargon just to provide a taste of authenticity at the same ratio they use on TV (i.e. not so much) is perfectly fine. Going too far either way irks me.
I cannot tell you how many books have turned me off with this.
Every CCNA book, for starters.
Any work of fiction with the equivalent of "This is UNIX! I know this!" In it.
10-4, Good buddy!
PC Master Race jerks who think for a Let's Play to be good, the game has to run at 60 FPS.
@Arkandel said:
Which part are you "holy shitting"? The fact that Randi Harper is horrible? (Knew that.) The part where the comments on this article are about as classy as Youtube comments? (Expected that.) Or the fact that I can't find a single link to parts 2 and 3, even though this was published in June?
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
@Coin Yes.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/tiny-dog-survives-brutal-torture-101715922.html
That infuriated me. Also, is there any good reason to suggest the teenagers involved aren't capable of doing such things to people either now or in the future?
Who the fuck does that. Dammit.
They have until about 25 or so to fully develop their prefrontal lobe. In theory this is when they will have a full human conscience and sentience. I'm good with assuming that they won't be worth the risk to others though, because I am evil like that.
I have a waggish sense of humor.
I am definitely not going to click that link. No way in hell. But I'll just say that torturing animals is a benchmark for sociopaths on their way to humans.
Those assholes who don't plan ahead for the holidays.
Christmas is the same time every year, people. (really that goes for any holiday and/or birthdays)
@Misadventure said:
They have until about 25 or so to fully develop their prefrontal lobe. In theory this is when they will have a full human conscience and sentience. I'm good with assuming that they won't be worth the risk to others though, because I am evil like that.
I'm good with assuming that people under the age of 25 aren't fully developed, and ought to be treated as sub-sentient.
Because they are. Fucking hipsters.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
@thebird Plan in what way?
@Ganymede said:
Fucking hipsters.
"I hate how the younger generation self-identifies," said every old person ever.
edit for an important note: I live in Columbus, Ohio. Our "hipsters" are people who wear knit ski-hats and grow beards but are otherwise normal people acting normally, which sometimes includes saying how the group they identify with is better than other groups. Considering how close @Ganymede is, I doubt his/her/fuckifIknow "hipsters" are much different; bratty kids being bratty kids.
I have seen some about the Portland hipsters and damn, that's annoying, but it seems like a different brand of unwashed masses and not a whole lot else.
I'm a cake decorator and a freelance illustrator. So by plan, I mean...more than the day of the event for some crazy elaborate cake, and for drawings, more than a few weeks ahead of time.
I had to tell some poor lady that, no...I couldn't do her friend's elaborate wedding cake the next day, let alone in the next hour, this past weekend (frequent occurrence...I do what I can, but
come on...). She thought you "just came in whenever, to get one" and pointed at our styrofoam display cakes =|
And the drawing thing... Customers who get mad at me for not being able to get them a custom drawing in a week (finished and shipped to them, of their own photo), this time of year.
That kind of planning. Or lack thereof.
@thebird said:
I had to tell some poor lady that, no...I couldn't do her friend's elaborate wedding cake the next day, let alone in the next hour, this past weekend (frequent occurrence...I do what I can, but
come on...). She thought you "just came in whenever, to get one" and pointed at our styrofoam display cakes =|
So sell her a storyfoam cake! She said she wanted one and pointed right at it! The customer is always right. Duuh.
Dear perfume lady: please just get the fuck out of my cubicle, I don't care about how you once had a sore throat when you were pregnant and now never take flu shots. Just fuck off and die already. How more obvious can I be, typing stuff on the computer while you're blathering about stuff I don't care about.
A little ranty out--of-nowhere kind of complaint:
I really fucking hate all these damn 'serving suggestions'. I get that it is what the FDA or whomever figures that shit out thinks is ideal for someone on an x-a-day calorie diet to consume but seriously? How many people can actually eat 24 potato chips or 3 fucking cookies and feel satisfied? I sure as hell can't, says the person who can (and has) finished off a whole bag of poato chips at one time (and I have NO regrets!).
"Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here." - ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
@Arkandel said:
A bit of jargon just to provide a taste of authenticity at the same ratio they use on TV (i.e. not so much) is perfectly fine. Going too far either way irks me.
I cannot tell you how many books have turned me off with this.
Every CCNA book, for starters.
Any work of fiction with the equivalent of "This is UNIX! I know this!" In it.
